V60 · pour-over

The reference. Every coffee on this site is brewed this way before we decide it is finished.

Scale it to your kit

30 g

Coffee

480 g

Water

1 : 16

Ratio

Printed for the standard dose. With JavaScript the sliders below scale it live.

Clock starts at 0:00

—Rinse the paper through, tip the water out, add the grounds and level the bed flat.
0:00Bloom to roughly double the dose in water. Swirl once. It should dome, then settle.
0:45First pour, up to half the total water, in slow circles — stay off the wall of the cone.
1:30Second pour, up to the full water. Keep the bed flat; do not stir it.
2:15Let it draw down. A level bed means it ran evenly; a crater means you poured too hard.
3:00Done. Stalled long past this? Grind coarser. Finished well before it? Grind finer.